Re: apt: HTTP transfer method does not use available bandwidth
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
> Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> wrote:
> > unix.hensa.ac.uk sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk
> > wget http: 1.97KB/s 1.90KB/s
> > wget ftp: 5.19KB/s 5.42KB/s
>
> wget uses HTTP/1.0, so must establish a new connection for
> every file transfered via http, but can re-use the connection
> for ftp.
First off, I assume Oliver is testing single files. Secondly wget must
recreate a data channel when using ftp anyhow so the fact that wget is
only using HTTP/1.0 would not be relavent.
Jason
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